Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-23

leRSd VIOLATIONS OF law were outlaw &c.
After that he hal lesSAlse FOR Common, but
by this time the COOL New York boy from
the Ninth ward had made a fortune of
$50, 900 or more. Jay Gould ts so passion
less, ne has so nlUcG respect for cool
moves on the financial chess board, the
intellectual rather thau the sentimental
so completely dOminat es his character,
that ii Conner, one day in 1859, demanded
IN substance fortune as the price Of ST.
lence Gould expected him more, perhaps,
for pressing his advantage than he did
Addison CRGmAck, when the latter once
lent him, when he WAS in tight spot. fully
$4,000, COO wllnout so much as scrap of
paper as security.
Baron LOUIS Won Hoffman is another
member o. tue Exchange Club. He came
10 New J DIRK about fifteen years ago worth
$1,000,000 aud lost most OF 1t in Wall
street Then he became bauke! and ar
bitraguer and made it up. He IS now
worth 81, 600 600. He helped to give Baron
Woerishotfer his start IN Wall street.
S. V. White is another membcr. He
was once reporter for a st. Louis news
paper. Now he is worth 5000, 900. News
paper men have figured largely in the
financial lite Of New York. Henry Vii
lard was a reporter who started with
nothing but a shrewd German instinct for
finance and considerable assurance. He
built great railroad, won fortune aud
lost it, broke down his health, went to
Germany and has returned to again enter
the arena of fnance as a Teut0nic glad
iatOr. He is in very comfortable cir
cumstances now and will yet accumulate
millions. Jay Gould was once the editor
of a country newspaper. and James K.
heene filled the same position. +. L.
Stedman. the poet. was once city editor
of the New YORK World aud made a tor
tune which he lost through the mscOn-
duct Of one of his sons, and the former
financial editor OF the same paper is now
banker in Wall street. But speaking
of 5. V. White, who suggested these re-
marks ON newspaper men, he is consld-
cred one of the shrewdesC operators in
Wall street. He is called Deacon"
White merely because he owns pew in
Mr.. Beecher's c0urch. In his mansion
on Brooklyn Heights he has an ObserVa-
tory where he studies astronomy. he
lost 500, 600 betting on Blaine on the last
Presidential election. He is now MEM
Der OF Congress.
In DelmOnico's Broad street establish
ment one OF the Interesting figures whom
notice is Napoleon l.. Thieblin. better
known by hisnom die plume Of "RigolO."
He has had a farsmOre interesting career
than the average STOCK epeCulat0r. He is
81 years of age, slightly under the medium
height, and has features whose intellectual
caste is heightened by scholarly eve
glasses. He wears a full black beard
slightly touched with gray, dresses well
and has the knowledge OF the world of a
cosmopolitan. He is OF French extraction
and comes from one of the oldest families
in Lorraine. Driven out of the country
az Royalists in the First Revolution, his
ancestors settled in Bologna, Italy. Ri
gOio's father there STUDIED architecture
and was appointed Court Architect at st.
Petersburg, where young Tbleblin studied
Russian, Ahdft may be aided here that he
now speakskthFed or four languages. He
was concerned in the Petrosptfsky con-
spiracy in 1872. when the studente OF all
the universities OF Russia had become i'm
bued with Aie Revolutionary ideas which
had sprung up in other parts of Europe
and had led to a revolt in Germany In the
preceding year. HIS Royalist father,
alarmed for his sons safety, summary
tran sferred him from the Gynnase, where
he had been studying, to school Of artil-
lery and there in 1858 he was graduated
as a sub-iieutenant. In 1854. ia the war
between Russia on one side and ENGLAND
and France on the other, Lieut.. FhiebIin
was detailed for service IN the Army OF
the Danube and served In the trenches at
Stlistrla till he was transferred to Sebas-
tOpol, where he became, although only 20
years of age, the Junior officer of the first
bastion on the extreme left flank OF the
Russian position, For two nights and a
day the vaiorous STRIPPING had the COM
mand of over forty pieces OF artillery, his
superior officers either having been or
dered elsewhere or else Killed or wounded.
After the fall Of Sebastopol he was deco
rated and transferred to the batteries OF
the Imperial Guards. On the death of his
father be r6sj gaed his commission and
devoted nimself to the study of literature,
science and philosophy, went TO london,
became the foreign editor OF the Pail Mail
Gazette and IN moments OF leisure wrote
humorous aud cSusJic sketches oil English
life and charaebsr. which made sensa-
ton and We're republished in book form
by the proDrietoFs of Punch. lie served
rs a correspondent the field for the Pail
Mall Gazette ar through the Franco
Prussian war. He subsequently became
the correspondent of the New York Her
aid with the Carlist forces IN Spain. Mir
Taieblin came 10 New York in 1874, and
giving uD a project for tour round the
world joined the stan OF the sun, for
which he wrote editorials on foreign al
fairs, "Fhe Strangers Note Book" and
the financial articles signed "Rigolo," the
last mentioned giving him his reputation
in this country. He is no longer CON
nected with the sun, but acts as the edi-
tor of the Hour and writes syndicate ar
ticles for Bachelor 4 Go. tie has con-
tributed in the past TO the British Quar-
terly Review, M%cmiiian's Magazine,
London Society, the Manchester Guardian
and the London Standard, besides the
newspapers already mentioned, and the
story of his expert ences in Spain has heen
published in book form in London and
Boston. He has the pen OF ready writer
and DhilOsOphlCal cast of mind He
watches finance and speculation with
keen black eyes and an alert, original
mind.